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Originally Posted by Bruno
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The only issues I've ever had with blind bidding in the past was officer corruption and collusion. This was in a WoW guild I was in on live. The current officers in my EQ guild are all solid and I want to say the majority of the guild have faith in their integrity. I see this as being a non-issue. The set item prices just weren't moving dkp. It was very difficult for consistent and loyal, but just not 100% raiders to get items they really wanted. The blind bidding system is really moving the dkp, it's fun, and people are able to get items they want by bidding more. One of the best changes we've made and I see it aiding in keeping our guild together for the future expansions.
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Agreed. First of all, blind bidding is fun. Secondly, the blind bidding system requires bidders to be competent on another level than simply playing their character in order to maximize the success of their characters. If your officer corps is intelligent and 100% pure of motive it is very possible
in theory that items can be better distributed, as far as combat efficiency of the guild goes, by officer manipulation than the average retarded raider can do for themselves, but the cost in political strife and man-hours researching gear, relative playtimes, and character judgment is great and the benefits are only theoretical, dependent on the skill of your officers. Not to mention having a 100% trustworthy and selfless officer corps is virtually impossible; the metagame is about screwing people and you know it. That's the fun part about being an officer in a guild full of raider f*ggots. If you are there for the good company you are a f*ggot and a mark, and smarter people are having more fun than you getting more pixels than you.
In reality, if your best cleric were truly the most competent, would he not outcompete the rest of the clerics by bidding on only the most efficient spendings of his DKP to maximize the benefit to himself?
Is it likely you will find someone there in your guild stupid enough to do this legwork for somebody else for free yet competent to do it better than the beneficiary of the legwork??? It's
far more likely that person is benefiting personally by corrupting the process than that they are a 100% selfless autistic idiot savant.
Having been a corrupt guild leader and officer in multiple MMOs I can tell you for certain these loot council systems, etc exist only to facilitate corruption. On paper they sound good, but in reality they do not yield results above what a blind bidding system can. The only character that deserves some charity and officer intervention on upgrades is the main tank, and only because doing so increases the total output of the pixel pyramid scheme drastically.
If you are in a guild with a "loot council" and you are not a member of that loot council, you are a subhuman whose participation in your guild is a joke to those running the scheme. You are a mark. You are a Kirby vacuum salesman.